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Cf?e national Society, 
Sons of tt^c Qmerican Kcpolution 

tDtll Ijolb its 

^ourteentl? Ctnnual Congress, 

april 30 anb ZlTaij \, \<^03, 

Xltvo Vfavzn, Conn. 



(Beneral Statement 

The business headquarters of the Association 
will be in the New Haven House. All delegates are requested to 
register there as soon as possible after their arrival. General infor- 
mation may also be obtained there regarding transportation, objects 
of local interest, etc., and the, certificates entitling holders to a re- 
duced rate on return trip wij^ there be countersigned by the proper 
officer. 

Street Car Lines run from the Depot to the New Haven 
House; also within a block of the Tontine Hotel, and within two 
blocks of the Davenport Hotel, passing, en route, the Hotel Garde 
and the Oneco Hotel. 



Cransportatton 

E.xcuRSiON Rates of fare and one-third, on the cer- 
tificate plan, has been secured from railroads of the New England, 
Trunk Line, and Central Passenger Associations. This reduced rate 
applies only from certificate points, which embrace practically all 
the larger stations. Tickets through to New Haven should be pur- 
chased at such point, securing from Agent, at the same time, the 



prescribed form of certificate, which, when duly countersigned at 
New Haven by Albert J. Squier and the representative of the 
railroad, will entitle you to purchase at New Haven a return ticket 
from New Haven to your starting point, at one-third limited fare. 
Such tickets must be bought and used within three days (or a 
reasonable time) of the opening of the meeting ; the return ticket 
must be countersigned at New Haven on either Thursday or Fri- 
day, April 30th or May ist. 



^otels 



New Haven House, Chapel and College streets, American plan, 
$4.00 per day, one and two in a room, and $5.00 per day, with bath. 

Hotel Garde, 36 to 46 Meadow street, American plan, $2.50 per 
day and upwards. 

Tontine Hotel, Church and Court streets, European plan, 
rooms $1.50 to $2.00 per day. 

Oneco Hotel, 14 and 16 Church street, European plan, rooms 
$1.00 and $1.50 per day; $1.50 and $2.00, with bath. 

Hotel Davenport, Orange and Court streets, European plan, 
rooms $1.00 and $1.50 per day; American plan, $2.50 and $3.00 per day. 

Further information regarding hotels and boarding houses may 
be obtained of William E. Chandler, Treasurer, P. O. Box 785, New 
Haven, Conn. 

Some Cecal 0bjects of interest 

New Haven, first called Quinnipiack by the 
Indians, and later named Rodenburgh by the Dutch travelers on 
account of the red rocks in its neighborhood, was founded in 1638. 
A granite tablet in the wall of the brick building on the corner of 
College and George streets is placed near the site of the oak under 
which John Davenport preached his first sermon upon the day of the 
landing. On the stump of this tree stood, at a later period, the anvil 
of the father of Lyman Beecher and grandfather of Henry Ward 
Beecher. Newman's barn, in which the fundamental Agreement, or 
Constitution of the Colony, was adopted June 4th, 1639, is supposed 
to have been not far from the site of the building of the New Haven 
Colony Historical Society, 



iTctD ^avm Colony r^istorical Society Builbing 

The New Haven Colony Historical Society was chartered by 
the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, May, 1863. 

Its building on Grove street, fronting Hillhouse avenue, was 
erected and presented to the Society in commemoration of James 
Edward English and of his wife, Caroline Fowler English, by their 
son, Henry Fowler English, 1893. 

The rare collection of antiquities in the building will undoubtedly 
interest many, if not all, visitors. 

The Noah Webster House. The house in which Noah 
Webster worked and died, now occupied by Mrs. Henry Trowbridge, 
stands on the southwest corner of Grove and Temple streets, directly 
east of the Historical Society's building. During an interval of his 
college career he served in a company of militia, raised to oppose 
General Burgoyne. At one time his company acted as the escort to 
General Washington, and Webster has recorded that, "It fell to my 
humble lot to lead this company with music." 

The Benedict Arnold House, 155 Water street, built by 
Arnold about 1771. He left it in 1776. Bought by Noah Webster 
in 1798 and occupied by him from 1802 until 1812. The house is now 
used for the storage of lumber. 

The Wooster House stood at 282 George street. This house 
was the property of Major-General David Wooster, who was born 
at Stratford, March 2, 1710, and was graduated at Yale in 1738. Was 
a lieutenant in the provincial army during the war between England 
and Spain. In 1745 he was a captain in the regiment of Colonel Burr, 
which participated in the capture of Louisburg, and was finally pro- 
moted to the rank of brigadier-general during the French war. He 
received his death wound in the engagement near Ridgefield between 
General Tryon's forces and the American troops, from the effects of 
which he died May 2, 1777. The house was taken down in 1895 to 
afford a site for the Zunder School. 

The Roger Sherman House. The original house stood on the 
present site of the Union League Club, 1032 Chapel street. Subse- 
quently Sherman built another house on the same home lot, a little 
westward, 1050 Chapel street, now occupied by stores, where he lived 
and died in 1793. Roger Sherman, a sterling patriot, was the only 



man whose privilege it was to take part in the making and signing 
of four great state papers: The Declaration of Rights; the Declara- 
tion of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and the Consti- 
tution of the United States. 

The Elbridge Gerry House was located on the southeast cor- 
ner of Temple and Wall streets. He was a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence, and Vice President of the United States in 1813. 

The Hillhouse House, 83 Grove street. Here James. Hillhouse 
spent the early years of his life. Built in 1762 by his uncle, James 
Abraham Hillhouse. James Hillhouse, as a member of the Gov- 
ernor's Foot Guard, marched for Cambridge on the Lexington Alarm, 
and at the time of General Tryon's invasion of New Haven, as cap- 
tain of the same company, marched to West Bridge to repel the 
invaders. Was United States Senator for four terms. 

The Eli Whitney House, on northwest corner of Elm and 
Orange streets. The inventor of the cotton-gin died here January 
8, 1825. 

John Trumbull, Patriot and Artist. Upon a tablet over his 
grave, under the Yale Art School, appears the following inscription: 



CoL. John Trumbull, 

Patriot and Artist, 

Friend and Aid^ 

OF 

Washington, 

lies beside his wife 

beneath this gallery of art. 

lebanon, 1756. new york, 1843. 



The Tryon Invasion of New Haven. The old cannon cap- 
tured from the British at the time of the invasion are planted as 
corner posts: 

Corner of Temple and Center streets. 

Corner of Union and Wooster streets. 

Corner of Court and State streets. 



The Franklin Elm, planted April 17, 1790, the day of Franklin's 
death, on the corner of Church and Chapel streets. 

The New Haven City Burial Ground, on Grove street, 
between Prospect and Ashmun streets, was established in 1797 by 
James Hillhouse, to whom the city is also indebted for most of its 
trees, and was the first burying ground in the world to be laid out in 
family lots, having been opened seven years in advance of Pere 
Lachaise. Many eminent men lie in this cemetery; among them 
Roger Sherman, Lyman Beecher, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, 
Admiral Andrew H. Foote, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, and many presi- 
dents and professors of Yale University. 

In the Crypt of Center Church, on the Green, which will be 
open for delegates to the Congress, may be found many tombstones 
of historical interest. The grave of John Dixwell, the regicide, 
stands directly back of Center Church. 

The Park System of New Haven includes East and West 
Rock Parks; Fort Hale and Fort Wooster Parks, on the east shore; 
Bay View Park on the west shore; Water Side and Edgewood Parks; 
and the Green, or Public Square, with several smaller Parks in the 
central parts of the city. 

Fort Wooster Park Tablet. Bronze tablet unveiled by the 
General Humphreys Branch, No. i, of the Connecticut Society of 
the Sons of the American Revolution, on July 5, 1895, the one hun- 
dred and sixteenth anniversary of the Invasion of New Haven by 
the British. This location, known as Beacon Hill, was formerly an 
Indian Burying ground, afterwards called Fort Wooster. Some- 
years since it was purchased by the city and named Fort Wooster 
Park. 

The Buildings of Yale University, founded in 1700, have 
spread from the original college square on the west side of College 
street in different directions. The more important ones are indi- 
cated upon the accompanying map. 

The Hopkins Grammar School, founded in 1660, stands on the 
northwest corner of High and Wall Streets. 

The New High School and Boardman Manual Training School 
stand on Broadway and York Square. They are models of their kind. 



The Commercial and Industrial Interests of New Haven 
have been a prominent feature of its life from the beginning. Its 
Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1794. The Whitney Armory 
was founded by the inventor of the cotton-gin, and is now owned by 
the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. It was here that fire- 
arms with interchangeable parts were first made. The Winchester 
Repeating Arms Company is located on Winchester avenue, and 
employs about 3,000 persons. J. B. Sargent & Co., manufacturers 
of shelf hardware, have extensive buildings on Water street. The 
first telephone exchange in the world was established in New Haven 
in January, 1877, and the general offices of the Southern New Eng- 
land Telephone Company are here. The carriage industry, estab- 
lished here by James Brewster in 1810, is still one of the leading indus- 
tries of the southeastern part of the city. A large number of firms 
are now engaged in the manufacture or sale of carriages or parts of 
carriages. In the same neighborhood are the extensive works of the 
New Haven Clock Company, of the Candee Rubber Company, Na- 
tional Steel and Wire Company, New Haven Rolling Mill and 
numerous other large industries. 

program 

CI?ursbay 

Reception of Delegates at New Haven House; Meeting of Con- 
gress at Historical Society Building, 10 a. m. 
Visit Yale University Buildings at 4 p. m. 
Reception at the Yale Art School in the evening. 

Meeting of Congress at 10 a. m. 

Carriage drive around the city and to East Rock Park and Fort 
Wooster and Beacon Hill, 2 p. m. 

Banquet, Music Hall, 117 Court street, 6.30 p. m. 



€xecutitJe Committee 

Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Chairman 

William E. Chandler, Treasurer Isaac W. Birdseye 

HoFART L. HoTCHKiss, Secretary to Coiium'ttee 



Committee on 3noitation 

Gen. Edwin S. Greeley, Chairman 
Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D. D. Col. Rutherford Trowbridge 



Committee on Heception 



Jonathan Trumbull, 
L. Wheeler Beecher 
Frank C. Bushnell 
William H. Ely 
Hon. James A. Howarth 
Seymour C. Loomis 
Gen. Phelps Montgomery 
Col. Charles W. Pickett 
Col. Rutherford Trowbridge 
Hon. Rollin S. Woodruff 
Col. Samuel Daskam 
Henry C. Sherwood 
Merrit Heminway 
Hon. Isaac W. Brooks 
Franklin Farrel 
Asa C. Bushnell 
Amos F. Barnes 
James D. Dewell, Jr. 
Frederick J. Easterbrook 
Nathan B. Fitch 
Charles A. Ingersoll 
William D. Scranton 
Louis B. Curtis 
Geo. B. Martin 
Wm. H. Atwood 
Wm. E. Chandler 



Chairman 

Hon. Charles Brooker 
Hon. James D. Dewell 
Col. Simeon J. Fox 
Rev. E. S. Lines, D.D. 
Hon. Charles S. Mersick 
Col. N. G. Osborn 
Charles W. Scranton 
Herbert C. Warren 
Samuel A. York 
Hon. Charles G. Stone 
Hon. John P. Kellogg 
Gen. Russell Frost 
Col. Frank W. Cheney 
Edward C. Beecher 
Edward I. At water 
George T. Bradley 
Frederick T. Bradley 
James E. English 
Edward L. Fox 
Franklin H. Mason 
Edward Taylor 
William H. Moseley 
Robert W. Hill 
N. W. Kendall 
George F. Newcomb 



Committee on Decorations 

Everett E. Lord. Chairman John N. Champion 

Committee on ZHusic 

Frank A. Corbin, Chairman Frederick S. Ward 

Committee on Banquet 

Wilson H. Lee, Chairman 

Geo. a. Alling Benjamin R. English 

John H. Platt 

Committee on ^TTarking historical places 

Nathan Easterbrook, Jr., Chairmatt Edward C. Beecher 

Committee on ^otels 

Gen. George H. Ford, Chairman 
Wilson H. Lee Benjamin R. English 

Committee on Carriages 

Benj. R. English, Chairman 
Sherwood S. Thompson William J. Atwater 

Committee on Cransportation 

William E. Chandler 

(general Committee 

Gen. E. S. Greeley, Chairman 
Hon. N. D. Sperry Gen. George H. Ford 

Gen. Samuel E. Merwin Hon, Eli Whitney 

Hon. Asa W. Brooks Dr. G. F. C. Williams 

Hon. Morris- W. Beardsley Hon. Charles Hopkins Clark 

Major Lewis R. Cheney Nathaniel L. Bradley 

John W. Coe Hon. Hobart L. Hotchkiss 

Gen. William A. Aiken Franklin H. Hart 

Wm. E. Chandler E. P. Root 

Hon. H. Wales Lines 



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